Phil Jackson Quotes
No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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I love cooking and baking.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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I don't hit it very far; I don't overpower a golf course, but I think I'm a pretty decent putter. At Augusta National, putting is premium.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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I had so many older brothers who beat up on me, so I'm a tough kid. I love mixed martial arts, weapons training, guns, knives, driving fast cars and motorcycles.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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This is part of what makes me, ahem, an excellent houseguest: I'm game. I'm flexible. I'll make you feel okay about eating an entire chocolate cake in one sitting because I'm right there by your side with my own fork.
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Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.
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No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.
